Data Mining, Down Under

Welcome to “Data Mining, Down Under”, a blog by Aussie data miner Shane Butler.

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PMML Tree Model to Code Converter

January 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Software

Lately I’ve been trying to come up with a generic way to deploy models on any platform.  So I’d like to share some early code that takes a PMML TreeModel and converts it to R code.  The intention is to get the R code generation working right, then extend to support generation for other languages. [...]

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SAS hints at future R integration

February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Software

In more R news, it appears SAS isn’t as worried about airplane safety as originally thought, and has indicated they will include R support in an upcoming update to the SAS/IML product.  For details see NYTimes & Adventures in Consulting.

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R in the New York Times

January 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Software

The New York Times has an interesting story on the increasing use of R for data analysis within academia and industry.  Several large corporates are cited as having selected R over commercial conterparts such as S and SAS.
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Update: For more R news, see also Ajay Ohri’s interview with Dr Graham Williams, the author of [...]

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Getting to know R Graphs

April 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Software

Check out the R Graph Gallery which includes not only detailed descriptions of graphs you can produce in R, but also R source! Props to Martin for the link.

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DecisionStudio Professional

March 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off · Software

A new desktop BI package called DecisionStudio Professional has launched featuring some of the top tools open source tools for analytics. Version 1.0 features an impressive array of tools, including:

MySQL Server for database and data warehouse needs. Graphical tools MySQL Workbench and Query Browser are also included.
Python with an IDE. Also additional libraries for numeric [...]

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